NowGamer is giving out 12,000 Beta Keys for Star Wars: The Old Republic!! Head over to their site now to enter for your chance to experience the game early!! Also TOR Facebook page has added a new image from the game! This time showing the Enternity Vault in all its glory.

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Co-author of the upcoming Star Wars: Shadow Games, Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff has written a new entry in her ongoing Padawan’s Journal over on the Book View Cafe Blog. A Padawan’s Journal #43: “George McFly, a Box of Books, and Me” relates Maya’s experience with Shadow Games to Back to the Future. You can check it out here. If you haven’t been reading the journal entries, they are well worth the time. Maya shares some pretty neat insights into the writing process for Shadow Games.

Star Wars: Shadow Games will be out on November 29 in paperback and digital formats.

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Marianne de Pierres posted an interview on their website with Star Wars comic writer Tom Taylor. Tom is the writer for the ongoing Star Wars comic series Invasion. He has also written Star Wars: Blood Ties, Star Wars Adventures Volume 3: Luke Skywalker and the Treasure of the Dragonsnakes, Star Wars Adventures Volume 4: The Will of Darth Vader, and will be writing the new arc for Blood Ties entitled Boba Fett is Dead.

The interview covers Tom’s work with comics, film and theater; his personal choice between the ultimate superheroes: Superman or Batman; and his upcoming projects which include The Deep: The Vanishing Island, Believe, Blood Ties: Boba Fett is Dead, another DC Comics project, a 2000 AD project, two secret projects with big publishers, and even a short film. You can read the interview here. You can also check out Tom Taylor on his website or on Twitter and Facebook.

Today The Art and Making of Star Wars: The Old Republic hits stores. The 160 page hardcover will include artwork of characters, weapons, starships, and new worlds as well as interviews. The book is written by authors Frank Parisi, and Daniel Erickson. It includes a forward by Penny Arcade.

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Latest Databurst From the 501st covering event news from November 16-22. Quite a few library events coming up, plus the Boston Super Megafest featuring some big Star Wars guests. As always remember to mark your calendars and show your support for your local garrisons.

Kerra Holt has her Jedi work cut out for her! As crime lord Zodah the Hutt’s massive Stormbringer vessels flood Kerra’s homeworld with rain, she does her utmost to herd the listless inhabitants to the safety of higher ground. Meanwhile, Sith Lord Daiman doesn’t appreciate Zodah destroying a world that belongs to him! Soon, Kerra will have two armies to fight!

Queen Nina and Princess Kaye have successfully rescued the refugees from the Battle of Shramar, but the Yuuzhan Vong invaders may still have another win for their tally. Or is there another revelation in store? Meanwhile, on Coruscant, Jedi-in-training Finn Galfridian finds that in trying to prevent an assassination, he may be complicit in one! The next revelation may be about Finn’s new mentor!

Today DC Universe Online Legends #17 comes out. Written by Star Wars comic writer Tom Taylor, this issue will wrap up The Brainiac – Sinestro Corps War arc. After reading #16, I can’t wait to see how this one turns out.

Hal Jordan is seriously conflicted as he and the Green Lantern Corps arrive at Korugar to “contain” the war between Sinestro’s Yellow Lanterns and Brainiac – but can they save the planet of innocents caught in the crossfire? And how desperate could things possibly get that would see Hal team up with Sinestro for one final battle?!